The Brookhaven leader., 1887-12-15
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Tupelo needs street lamps.

pany.
"The Bad Boy" is now on the
boards.
The A. and NJ. College is valued at
$206,906.
Lieut.. Gov. Stands is visiting South
Carolina.
Columbus has hop club and some
other things.
Planterville was recently laid in
ruins by fire.
Christmas and matrimony now over
ride the State.
Now Hazlehurst wants an oil mill
and box factory.
A. b. Foggs killed j. +. Shaw at
Natchez last week.
Starkville has received cotton from
Is different counties.
Candidates for Railroad Commission
ers are becoming numerous.
Some modest editors are broadly
limiting for a Christmas turkey.
Miss. Jennie Lee Burkitt, of the
Chickasaw Messenger, is spunky.
C.. Frazer, of Winona, has invented
a device for reloading paper shells.
A. J. Collins and V. NJ. Cannon,
two old citizens of Yazoo died last
week.
Frank Subat, a native of Austria,
died at Hazlehurst last week, aged 50
years.
The Tupelo Ledger Is a real live
paper, though an infant of but a few
weeks.
A furniture factory is to he started
at Greenwood, with capital OF
$250,0O0.
Mr.. A. J. Montgomery and Miss
Alice Beard were recently married in
jackson.
Noxubee has two candidates for Con
gress, Hon. Clark Lewis and Hon. j.
III. Jamison.
Mississippians may now view a com
ct in the northwest sky, in the even
ing, so we see.
Paris green has infused hope and
life into the cotton planters as well as
death into the worm.
At Natchez two colored men publish
the brotherhood" which is credit
to the colored people.
Senator Thos. Kemp's paper, Holly
Springs South, warmly and power
fully advocates Prohibition.
The Masons and Knights of Honor,
of Tupelo are making arrangements
to build a brick lodge room.
There is a feeling throughout the
State that the Legislature ought to
'do something" What is itl
Mr.. Ed. Watson, of Holly Springs,
Assistant United States Attorney
General, died last week in Cincin-
natl.
Wesson has fire company and it is
stated that Capt. Oliver, of the
Mississippi Mills, will give them uni
forms.
DR.. James Smith, "a native of Warren
county, died suddenly on Il street OF
Greenville while walking with his
brother.
Senator J. p. Walkers beautiful
and popular daughter, Miss MOllie
was married recently to Mr.. f. C.
Williams ut Meridian.
Cooley Mann, collector of customs
at the port of Vicksburg, has resigned
and II. II. Kairn's application for the
position been forwarded.
The Chapel Hill Alliance has Gre
solved" to devote more attention tC
and decrease their acreage in cot
ton.
Near Centreville a party of white
men went to the house of a negro to
whip him when the latter defended
himself and killed two of his assail-
ants.
A handsome silver butter dish, syn
up pitcher and waiter were presented
Rev. X. ii. Purser, on the occasion OF
his resignation at old Damascus church,
C0piah.
Two salOon-keepers were indicted
by the YazoO grand jury last week
for going into that county and taking
orders for whisky, contrary to the Local
Option law.
Mr.. B. Meyer, a native of Minver-
sheim, Alsace, but for thirty five years
Il resident of Natchez, died there last
week. He was leading business
man, aged so.
The boiler of saw mill six miles
from Hazlehurst exploded on the
10th, killing negro and scattering
several whites. Lack of water in the
boiler, the cause.
Gov. Robert Taylor, of Tennessee,
has been invited to address the litera-
ry societies of the University next
June, with Congressman Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, alternate.
The colored Methodist church ofPort
Gibson with membership of fifty five
gave for various objects during the
year 800. And these members have
barely the necessities of life.
The State Teachers Association will
meet in jackson on the 2Sth and 29th
of December. All teachers invited.
There will be a meeting of the county
superintendent at the same time and
place.